On August 4, Direxion Daily Semiconductors Bull 3x Shares declined 5.31% in after-hours trading, trading at $132.68/share, with turnover of $187 million.
The ETF had surged over 11% during regular trading, fueled by a broad semiconductor sector rebound and record retail inflows of $120 billion into semiconductor ETFs in the last week of July. However, after-hours trading saw concentrated profit-taking as short-term gains were locked in. Institutions noted the intraday rally was primarily a technical oversold recovery rather than an elimination of underlying risk factors, particularly Japan's newly implemented export controls on advanced packaging equipment to China, which triggered the prior session's 7%+ plunge.
As a 3x leveraged ETF tracking the thirty largest U.S. listed semiconductor companies, SOXL amplifies daily index movements in both directions. The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in financial instruments that provide 3X daily leveraged exposure to the index. The fund is non-diversified.
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